Tomorrow we leave for our annual visit to Japan, land of (among other things) excellent temples, gardens, trains, vending machines, toilets, and huge statues of spiritual leaders. It is currently my intention to blog more frequently than I did last year, although I won’t make any promises as such since this is, after all, a vacation.
To answer the questions that seem to come up most frequently when we tell someone that we’re traveling to Japan:
- No, we don’t speak Japanese.
- Some stuff is expensive, some isn’t.
- Yes, the cherry trees will probably be blooming while we’re there. They started opening a few days ago but the weather has been cool enough that they’re progressing slowly.
- Yes, the bullet trains are really cool.
